{"id":217767,"date":"2025-12-23T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-traffic-agency-deploys-officers-tow-trucks-during-yuletide\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:06:13","slug":"nigeria-lagos-traffic-agency-deploys-officers-tow-trucks-during-yuletide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-traffic-agency-deploys-officers-tow-trucks-during-yuletide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos Traffic Agency Deploys Officers, Tow Trucks During Yuletide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">LASTMA&#8217;s General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said the festive season is often characterised by increased traffic arising from concerts, carnivals, religious programmes and other end-of-year events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagos State Traffic Management Authority<\/a> (LASTMA) has unveiled an extensive traffic control and enforcement plan to ensure smooth vehicular movement across the state during the yuletide season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a statement on Sunday, LASTMA announced that the measures were activated in anticipation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASTMA&#8217;s General Manager, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said the festive season is often characterised by increased traffic arising from concerts, carnivals, religious programmes and other end-of-year events. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has unveiled an extensive traffic control and enforcement plan to ensure smooth vehicular movement across the state during the yuletide season. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,5981,13205,2477,257,4687,393,6749,254,53202,9527,7970,25621],"class_list":["post-217767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-deploys","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-officers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tow","tag-traffic","tag-trucks","tag-yuletide"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}